meantime, city leaders are considering a plan that would make pricing nextible at some other iconing locations, depending on the time of day. leann, how are visitors reacting to the news? >> reporter: what can they say? they want to enjoy the san francisco experience. when you come fair attractions here to others in major cities, we're not that expensive. ask a tourist from europe if they would pay extra to see an amazingly wonderful san francisco attraction and here's your answer. >> people are coming here to san francisco to see the city. you will pay a lot of money to see different places. so yes. why not? >> but for people from u.s. cities like omaha, nebraska, where the cost of living is cheaper, san francisco attractions are high. >> so the price for you is $9. it may go up. >> wow! >> they should give a discount to people from out of town. >> we're talking about coit tower, the japanese tea garden and the botanical gardens. the current admission price for each is $9. the department of recreation and partial is proposing charging nonresidents more. up to 50%. or less, depending

they change prices by the hour, by the you have to time it and be nextible when you good and where you'ren you want to buy tickets in order to get the best deal. and the problem is you can't really predict okay, the best deals are going to be offered at this time of the year or this many months out or anything like that. you have to troack prices to knw this is the bottom. this is the lowest price for a ticket no new york or london or whatever. and that is hard to do. fortunately, there are tools that can help you. kayak and google flights, canigs you tell them to let you know when prices dip. and we also found there is a really cool e-mail newsletter can you get. it is free. it is called scott's cheap flights. what it does is they basically they have a staff of people who just do these searches for cheap flights all day long. and when prices dip below what a level that they say is a good price, then they send an e-mail out and let you know. are they pretty good? >> it's pretty good. we've been using it. i've been using it. our staff is using it. the nice thing is that airlines are not pa